12 Apr
2003
12 Apr
'03
5:51 p.m.
On Sunday, Apr 13, 2003, at 16:45 Pacific/Auckland, Don Maslin wrote:
On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Alan Greenstreet wrote:
The BIOS reads date 1980 so the battery may be an issue. Using fdisk I
can read the partition table and the attributes of the disk.
A small victory: Through persistence I can now read the data in the
extended partition but it is quite unreliable (sometimes reads
sometimes not) - the disk makes a _lot_ of noise and quite obviously
wants to be left alone...
Not to be outdone I will try Spinrite.
Another question - is it worth trying to save? Has anyone got any
information on Wyse Technologies machines?
The google thing didn't bring up much other than another collector
stating it was a 386 server???
Thanks
Alan
Can anything be done to revive these disks or
were they left unparked
and now physically damaged?
I have another 5.25" hard drive displaying the same unresponsive
characteristics... are they all dead?
Have you gone into the BIOS to see what the settings are for the
drives? Does the clock/calendar work properly? If not, the
battery may be dead and settings incorrect.
- don